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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 28, 1998Ashland County, Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1998, 7:13 PM EDT for Ashland County, Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1998, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1998, 8:05 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Ashland County, OH, Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 28, 7:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Loudonville, OH	Trees and some power lines were downed, possibly by downburst winds.
Jun 28, 7:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, OH	Several trees were downed, especially in the western part of the county.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 28, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 60 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

870 
WFUS1 KCLE 282313
TORCLE
OHC005-075-290000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
713 PM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
  HOLMES COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 805 PM EDT

* AT 712 PM EDT... A SPOTTER(S) REPORTED A TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTH OF
  ASHLAND OR IN THE VICINITY OF LOUDONVILLE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  LOUDONVILLE
  MOHICANVILLE


GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 9:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Richland	51 min
Jun 27, 9:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	32 min
Jun 27, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	61 min
Jun 27, 9:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	61 min
Jun 27, 10:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Knox	3 hr
Jun 28, 1:25 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Knox	3 hr
Jun 28, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	64 min
Jun 28, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Sandusky	61 min
Jun 28, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	65 min
Jun 28, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	65 min
Jun 28, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	63 min
Jun 28, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	65 min
Jun 28, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	47 min
Jun 28, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	48 min
Jun 28, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	50 min
Jun 28, 5:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Seneca	2 hr
Jun 28, 6:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	50 min
Jun 28, 6:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Erie	2 hr
Jun 28, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	64 min
Jun 28, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	66 min
Jun 28, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	49 min
Jun 28, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	63 min
Jun 28, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	35 min
Jun 28, 6:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	2 hr
Jun 28, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	62 min
Jun 28, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Medina	65 min
Jun 28, 6:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford, Richland	2 hr
Jun 28, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	48 min
Jun 28, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	66 min
Jun 28, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	64 min
Jun 28, 7:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Morrow	2 hr
Jun 28, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	63 min
Jun 28, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	62 min
Jun 28, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	66 min
Jun 28, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	64 min
Jun 28, 7:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Knox	2 hr
Jun 28, 7:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford, Wyandot	2 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.